Talk:Matt Taibbi
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Twitter Files?
"The nineteenth installment of the Twitter Files, "The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine, Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of "True Stories" raises questions about the government and social media censorship"
So my just-now research of the "Twitter Files" shows that the files were given to several journalists, not just Taibbi. I did this research because the above statement seems to indicate that Taibbi published a work titled "The Twitter Files" with many (more than 19) "installments".
Is this the actual title of Taibbi's work? Are there two such bodies of work, one the trove of tweets released by Musk to multiple journalists, and the second being something separate and distinct by Taibbi alone? Because this passage reads like there was only one, published by Taibbi, and yet there is a complete Wikipedia Article on the trove released by Musk/Twitter, so that can't be right.
This Article is unclear, is the point, and should be/could be cleaned-up and clarified.
2603:8081:3A00:30DF:342C:AE9A:9842:607 (talk) 19:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- It is repeatedly clarified that the mentioned installments are "by Taibbi". We do not need to mention other installments by Shellenberger, Weiss etc. This is an article for Taibbi, not the "Twitter Files" itself or the other writers. Nothing needs to be improved except the reading comprehension of some, which is not the job of Wikipedia. Οἶδα (talk) 22:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
History - Racket News
@Οἶδα thanks. My reasoning for noting History as "redundant" and restructuring the section was that these entries below seem more appropriate under the Racket News section, which is present and active, rather than historical in context, as you said. Can I make another change to these paragraphs without adjusting other parts of History? Or help me understand why these would be historical? Thank you-
On August 12, 2022, the podcast America This Week was added to TK news. It is a weekly national news wrap-up with Taibbi and Walter Kirn, novelist and literary critic, that is released on Fridays. A transcript of the podcast is also published at Racket News. It is also available on Apple Podcasts.
Taibbi is one of the most popular writers on Substack and earns much more from the platform than he did writing for Rolling Stone. Yachtahead (talk) 19:33, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Yachtahead. Thanks for the message. I reverted your edit as it removed context of when Taibbi moved away from Rolling Stone. This is clearly necessary information and is mentioned in the lead. If I were to read your revision[1] I would have no way of knowing when that shift happened. Considering I reverted your entire edit, I have now restored the restructuring. If there is anything else you would like to adjust go ahead. Οἶδα (talk) 21:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Οἶδα thank you. Yes i had simply copied that up to the Self-publishing section, as part of his transition from Rolling Stone to his independent efforts. Looks very good now, many thanks! Yachtahead (talk) 20:02, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- Of course! Thank you. Οἶδα (talk) 04:09, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Οἶδα thank you. Yes i had simply copied that up to the Self-publishing section, as part of his transition from Rolling Stone to his independent efforts. Looks very good now, many thanks! Yachtahead (talk) 20:02, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
"Former Soviet Union"
I would de-emphasize that. He never set foot in the Soviet Union as far as I can tell. He spent time in countries that had been part of the USSR, but those countries still exist and they still were once part of the USSR, but we wouldn't describe someone today as working in the former Soviet Union. Ealtram (talk) 16:39, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Agreed. 2A00:23C8:5304:F501:B132:E3BE:45FF:64D6 (talk) 12:20, 7 June 2025 (UTC)
- Well I believe I originally phrased it that way to encompass the fact that it wasn't just Russia, it was also Uzbekistan and the former satellite state of Mongolia. I agree that it should be de-emphasized though. However, as far as "never set foot in" goes, Taibbi studied at Leningrad Polytechnical Institute when he was 20 years old, which would have been the Soviet Union, with Taibbi himself even calling it "the waning days of the Soviet empire". Οἶδα (talk) 20:56, 7 June 2025 (UTC)
Wrong chronological order of career
His career sections starts out with his stint in Uzbekistan, but he started in Russia. It should start with Russia. 2A00:23C8:5304:F501:B132:E3BE:45FF:64D6 (talk) 12:03, 7 June 2025 (UTC)
